Have you ever wondered what would happen if you mashed up Super Mario Bros. and Grand Theft Auto? No, I didn’t think so, which is why the video above is so, so good. It combines the two into a mixture that wonderfully reimagines Mario and Luigi as GTA-style thugs, holding their own in a world of crime and violence. All the major players–Bowser, Peach, Koopa Troopers, etc.–make appearances and the conventions of Mario’s world seem to meld wonderfully with what we’ve come to expect from a Scarface/GTA-style plot.

The part that really hooked me was when coin boxes are sitting behind an armored truck and one character notes that the 10,000 coins there are enough to buy a new life (a typical line from an movie in the genre). Another thug notes it’s enough to buy 1000 news lives… you know, at 1 life per 100 coins. Game references like that are strewn though the video like wonderful green and white 1up mushrooms in Super Mario Bros.